Stocking-supporter



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E. METHOT.

STOGKING SUPPORTER. N9. 280,846. Patented July 10, 1883.

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EBENS METHOT, on BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

STOCKlNG-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 280,846, dated July 10, 1883.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern..-

Be it known that I, EBENS METHOT, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, of the State of Massachusetts, have inventeda new and useful Improvement in StockingSupporters; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a top view, and Fig. 2 a front elevation, of a stocking-supporter embracing my invention. Fig. 3 is a rear view, and Fig.-

4. a front view, of its garter-holder and stocking-catch. Fig. 5 is a transverse section of such catch taken through its garter-holding part. Fig. 6 represents a View of the supporter as applied to the leg of a person and the stocking thereon.

The nature of my invention is defined in the claim hereinafter presented.

The stocking-supporter, as shown in the acthe ends of the latter are drawn in opposite directions through the two slots a and I), each end portion of the garter lapping on the other, as shown in Fig. 1. In this manner the garter is to be drawn upon the leg, above the calf thereof, and the stocking, at its upper edge, is to be drawninto the tapering slot of the catch, which will hold the stocking in connection with such catch.

The catch may be made without the lip and be very useful and sufficient when the garter is made of silk; but when of cotton it is well to have the lip, as it will effectually prevent the garter from accidentally slipping in the catch.

The garter when made of elastic Webbing and applied as described to the catch can readily be drawn upon or off the leg without the necessity of detaching such garter from the catch.

I claim The garter-holder and stocking-catch, consisting of the plate having in it the tapering slot at or near one end thereof, and also having in it, near its other end, two straight slots, and a lip on the side of one of them, all being arranged substantially as set forth.

EBENS METHOT.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, E. B. PRATT. 

